SANDERS Alfred Edwin

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Private Alfred Edwin Sanders, Coldstream Guards, was the son of William and Sarah Sanders, of Lime Cottages, Barrowden where he was born on 23 December 1892. He worked as an agricultural labourer before working in a stone quarry and a lime works. When war broke out in 1914 he was working in the engineering department of the London and North West Railway Company at Rugby, and joined up almost immediately, on 14

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2 images Alfred Edwin is also remembered on the Rugby War Memorial.Rugby Family History Group is researching all the 400+ names on the memorial and publishing biographies on a blog https://rugbyremembers.wordpress.com Details of Alfred Edwin Sanders will be published on 30 Dec 2014, the centenary of his death.I have used a couple of pictures from this website (with acknowledgement) - hope this is OK
By RugbyRemembers on Saturday 20th December '14 at 9:24am
 

Rutland and The Battle of the Somme

More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.

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